The Latest Breaking News from Omicron

The four sub-variants of Omicron collectively account for 93 per cent of all Covid specimens collected in the past month, says WHO

Western Australia's premier is standing by his strict COVID-19 isolation rules as hundreds of school students are plunged into 14 days of quarantine.

The controversy surrounding New Zealand journalist Charlotte Bellis, who has now accepted a place in border quarantine after initially seeking refuge in Afghanistan when her first application was declined, has highlighted confusion and concern over New Zealand’s managed isolation and quarantine (MIQ) system.

Experts say that given the vast majority of Australians are fully vaccinated, it is not surprising they also make up a greater proportion of the raw number of people in ICU. We take a look at the figures.

Almost 500 patients across some of Greater Manchester's biggest hospitals waited more than 12-hours for a bed in December

Some of the adverts promoted were about stopping the spread of Omicron

Omicron. Revisions. Big seasonal factors. Friday’s U.S. jobs report is poised to be a bit of a doozy.

A decision to shorten the gap between the second vaccine dose and the booster shot will help shore up one of NZ's two front lines of defence against the rapidly-spreading Omicron variant.

A number of cases of the BA.2 variant have been found in Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon announced yesterday.